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...wife Shelley. They became a reporter-photographer team, covering Mussolini's Italy, the fall of France and wartime London. By 1941 Mydans was in Chungking to record China as it was devoured by Japan. The next year he and his wife were captured by the Japanese in Manila. They spent nearly two years in prison camps in the Philippines and China, fending off malnutrition and chafing at the thought of the stories they were missing on the outside...
...appeared full of hope, with sunshine after three days of rain. There was no hint of the violence to come in Manila last week as some 3,000 demonstrators began marching from the U.S. embassy toward the presidential palace. Most of the noisy, jostling crowd was made up of farmers from central Luzon, one of the country's principal rice-growing regions. Joined by militant students, they were protesting both high rice prices and U.S. support for the regime of President Ferdinand Marcos...
...demonstrators approached Manila's Liwasan Bonifacio, a central square, they were met by police antiriot squads. Accounts of what happened next differ. The demonstrators said a motorcycle policeman rammed into the crowd and other police quickly joined him, firing at the crowd with live ammunition. The police, however, said the demonstrators mauled the officer and provoked the police into a reaction by throwing rocks and homemade bombs. In any event, the results were tragic. Two students were killed, one instantly; about 20 other demonstrators were wounded, and several policemen suffered shrapnel wounds...
...faithful reconstruction of a pre-Revolutionary crane, this Rube Goldberg device consists of an upright 30-ft. ash sapling, a block and tackle suspended from a fork at its apex, yards of thick manila rope woven through an assortment of pulleys and a stout ashwood capstan. Today it will raise the final gable, a 20-ft.-long triangle of beams on which roof boards will later rest. Babcock casually knots the free end of the rope around the beams, then signals his crew of four. Under their weight, the groaning capstan turns. The rope creaks. The beams refuse to budge...
Washington has long regarded Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos as the guarantor of the strategically important U.S. military facilities at Clark Air Base, located about 60 miles northeast of Manila, and the U.S. naval station at Subic Bay. But last week the Philippine National Assembly began debate on a resolution sponsored by Marcos' Defense Minister, Juan Ponce Enrile, to abrogate the 1983 bases agreement between the two countries. Enrile was responding to a vote by the U.S. House of Representatives earlier this month to cut the Philippines' military aid next fiscal year from a proposed $100 million to $25 million...